Some Considerations in making full Use of the Hipparcos Catalogue

Details Some Considerations in making full Use of the Hipparcos Catalogue Some Considerations in making full Use of the Hipparcos Catalogue

1997-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707040v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 PS-figures, LaTeX using venice97.sty and twocolumn.sty To appear in the proceedings of the "Hipparcos Venice '97" s

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This contribution is intended as a `rough guide' to the Hipparcos Catalogue for the non-expert user. Some general aspects of the use of astrometric data are discussed as well as Hipparcos-specific applications. We discuss when and at what level one may expect systematic errors to occur in the Hipparcos Catalogue. Next we discuss the question of the interpretation of the measured parallaxes in terms of distances and luminosities of stars. What are the biases one should be aware of and how can these be corrected? When using the astrometric data to study the statistics of stars one should take the full covariance matrix of the errors on the astrometric parameters into account. We explain how to do this and discuss the specific case of a moving cluster. Finally, we address the question of the correlation of astrometric parameters over a given region of the sky. At present the Hipparcos Catalogue contains no identified systematic errors.

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